Open Sublime Text From Windows Subsystem for Linux Version 2

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Place in /usr/local/bin or some other path in $PATH
# Description: see https://hans.coffee/blog/subl-on-wsl/

import subprocess
import sys

# The path to the Sublime Text Windows executable in the Linxu file-system.
SUBL = "/mnt/c/Program Files/Sublime Text/subl.exe"


def window_path(path: str) -> str:
    # Convert a Linux path to a Windows one so Sublime Text understands it.
    result = subprocess.run(f'wslpath -aw "{path}"', shell=True, capture_output=True)
    if result.stderr:
        raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(
            returncode=result.returncode, cmd=result.args, stderr=result.stderr
        )
    # Somehow `subl` only understands paths using slashes instead of backslashes
    # as you would expect from a Windows command line utility. So we replace all
    # of the backslashes with regular slashes. Afterwards spaces in the path are
    # escaped so `subl` understands any path as a single argument, not multiple.
    return result.stdout.decode("utf8").strip().replace("\\", "/").replace(" ", "\\ ")


def main() -> int:
    # Execute the command on the Linux command line. Any argument beginning with
    # a `-` is passed on directly to `subl` (like `-w` or `--help`). However any
    # other argument is converted to a Windows path from a Linux one.
    command = f'exec "{SUBL}" ' + " ".join(
        [arg if arg.startswith("-") else f"{window_path(arg)}" for arg in sys.argv[1:]]
    )
    process = subprocess.Popen(
        command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True
    )
    # Print any output of `subl` like help text or errors.
    print(process.communicate()[0].decode("utf8"), end="", flush=True)
    return process.returncode


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Pass through the return code
    sys.exit(main())

Full description and problem statement: https://hans.coffee/blog/subl-on-wsl/